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Saturday, June 22, 2013

A New Take on Altered Clipboards

Over the years, I have clipped and printed several articles related to altered clipboards. In my 2013 quest to be a "doer," and not simply a "collector of ideas," I decided to finally act upon the inspiration, starting slow, with a few smaller-sized clipboards I purchased at an office supply store.

But as I started to collect items together that I wanted to incorporate onto each clipboard, a new idea was born. Instead of cutting up the ephemera to glue onto the clipboards, I decided to layer the selected pieces to create a kind of document collection clipped to each board.

My intention was to display the altered clipboards anyway, rather than use them in the traditional sense, covering over the alterations with my own stacks of day-to-day note-taking.

This revised approach, while "an easy way out," to be sure, allows flexibility and assures the integrity of the vintage items I was including in each piece. Nothing is cut, nothing is pasted.

Everything can be removed, re-conceptualized, and re-arranged.

The three clipboards have become a display item in Studio 791, hanging from nails between the door to the room and the closet opening.

I may yet alter a clipboard in the more "traditional" sense of the project, but for right now I am enjoying the fruits of this approach!

8 comments:

What an interesting idea. I agree they are like story or inspiration boards. I love clip boards and use them as the hard surface for most of my paper art so I find this especially cool. Thanks for sharing!

Brilliant idea! You have all the beauty of your compositions on display, but you still have the ephemera intact for future use. You can become a curator of your own stash - rotating what goes into the display on a regular basis.

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As a writer and mixed-media artist, I love to explore creativity and make art in the broadest sense of the term. As a mother, I consider my two daughters my greatest creative act, but beyond that I write and dabble in collage, mixed-media and assemblage projects, art journaling, card making, and altered art. “Drawing Near” is the blog that chronicles my creative pursuits, while “Living Stones” is the blog that explores topics of faith, prayer, Bible study, and Christian fellowship and service. My day-to-day life as a stay-at-home mother continues to revolve around meals, laundry, crafts, trips to school, a living room full of toys, family phone calls, church activities, reading, journaling, and exploring my creative side. It is not hard to fill the days with two spirited daughters, a “perfect-for-me” husband, and a determination to keep life interesting!

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